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No. 11 J Humphback June 1-08 Sechelt B. C.
Color, top of head back & sides black - the
median line of chest & diast from
shoulder to opposite pectorals is all
white streaked with long narrow
black marks pointing obliquely toward
the median line - from unit sides
like this V The white in median
cleft only runs back of pectorals
to anus, & here it is only in lashes
& flecks - On the sides of diast,
breast, the white median line gives
place to black of the rest of the
body, but it is very strongly dashed
with narrow white streaks all point-
ing obliquely toward the median line.
The white of the breast does not run
up to the anus so there is an
area here not very heavily marked.
Right canuss mandible is heavily
circled with white, but from the
beginning of the down curve of the
canus - J on diast back to the
fleshes in color except for fainter
traces of white in the breast of
the folds where they end. From
navel to penis little white and many
barnacles - grayish about penis &
from anus to flukes, the lower edge of a
peduncle is white & "jeffrey salt" Ruffy